Eva Kaili

Eva Kaili, a PASOK MEP and European Parliament Vice-President, has been expelled from the party following investigations by the Belgian authorities into ...

Belgian police on Friday (December 9) arrested Greek socialist leader and one of the vice-presidents of European Parliament Eva Kaili in Brussels, ...

Kaili's arrest has come following detainment of four others. The reported arrest has taken place in connection with a corruption investigation involving FIFA World Cup hosts Qatar. The arrest has been made in connection with a corruption case that involves FIFA World Cup hosts Qatar.

Eva Kaili, the EU vice-president and Greek MEP has been arrested by Belgian police, along with four other suspects, as part of an anti-corruption.

He is thought to have been an Italian Socialist. According to the police source, Kaili was arrested and taken into custody for questioning. Their only comment was that it involved a ‘Gulf’ state. It was confirmed by a source close to the case that Qatar was suspected of attempting to corrupt a politician who was a member of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2019. Among those detained is believed to be 53-year-old Luca Visentini, Ms Kaili’s partner. Kaili’s arrest in Brussels came after four other suspects were detained in similar circumstances earlier today.

Belgian police arrested Greek socialist MEP Eva Kaili, one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, in Brussels on Friday evening.

Ms Kaili is a member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and was voted in as one of 14 vice-presidents in January 2022. The center-left Socialists and Democrats group in the European Parliament said that it 'has taken the decision to suspend MEP Eva Kaili's membership of the S&D Group with immediate effect, in response to the ongoing investigations.' Eva Kaili, 44, is a Greek MEP and a member of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement and the Greek Socialist Party, called the Pasok-Movement for Change. She made similar comments during a speech at the European Parliament later in November, accusing some MEPs of 'bullying' Qatar and accusing them of corruption. Pasok said it acted 'following the latest developments and the investigation by the Belgian authorities into the corruption of European officials.' In the EU Parliament she is a member of the center-left Socialists and Democrats group - although she has been suspended pending investigations. She was elected as one of the EU's 14 vice-presidents in January 2022. Kaili is the partner of one of the four, a parliamentary assistant with the European Parliament's Socialists and Democrats group, said a source close to the investigation. Belgian press reports said the country concerned was Qatar, and named the former MEP as Italy's Pier-Antonio Panzeri, who served as a socialist in the parliament between 2004 and 2019. - Eva Kaili, 44, was voted in as a vice-president of the EU in January 2022 Vice-president of the EU Parliament Eva Kaili was suspended from her party and Parliament group after being arrested in Brussels on Friday by police investigating alleged lobbying by World Cup hosts Qatar. - It follows the arrests of four people in Brussels earlier on Friday in the probe

Belgian police arrested Greek socialist MEP Eva Kaili, one of the vice-presidents of the European Parliament, in Brussels on Friday evening, a source close ...

According to the reports, the secretary general of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), Italian Luca Visentini, was also among those arrested. In a video statement posted on Twitter by the Qatar News Agency she said: "I believe the World Cup for Arabs has been a great tool for... A statement issued earlier by Belgian prosecutors mentioned a Gulf country in connection with an investigation into corruption and money laundering, but did not name it. political transformation and reforms..." She made similar comments during a speech at the European Parliament later in November, accusing some MEPs of "bullying" Qatar and accusing them of corruption. Investigators "suspected a Gulf country (of influencing) the economic and political decisions of the European parliament", the statement added.

Eva Kaili, one of the European Parliament's vice presidents, has been expelled by her political party in Greece amid a corruption probe.

Computer materials and phones were also seized as part of the sixteen searches which took place in the Belgian areas of Ixelles, Schaerbeek, Crainhem, Forest and Brussels. The Belgian police suspect that the country transferred “consequential sums of money” or “important gifts” to significant actors within the European Parliament, according to RTBF. In a statement, the prosecutor said that for two years, Belgian federal police inspectors “suspected a country from the Persian Gulf of influencing economic and political decisions of the European parliament,” according to RTBF.

Brussels (AP) -- A vice president of the European Union's parliament was suspended Friday by her party group after Belgian police carried out several raids ...

Eva Kaili, a VP of the European Parliament from Greece is suspected of receiving a bribe related to the 2022 Qatar World Cup corruption case.

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